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The Weigh-In Caitorial faae 4 Th Newt-Review, Roieburg, Rodeo Continuance Depends ; The excitement which usually swirls h roil ml one of Douglas County's longest standing traditions the rodeo ap pears to be misRing this year. Citing reasons would only be guess work. But it would be a shame if those reasons led to the discontinuation of the annual celebration. Many people probably don't care for the sport, but practically everyone likes a festival. It's good for a community to have a little tomfoolery and shake off the cobwebs of winter. It draws the com munity together, even if it's only to have fun. ,. , . , The Douglas County Rodeo did just that in past years. But this year, some of the spark is missing. Some have even in dicated the rodeo might be discontinued next year. It would be an ignominious end to a 19-year-old project which has offered a great deal more than a yearly weekend of fun. It would probably be safe to say that without the Douglas County Rodeo, the Fairgrounds would not exist as it does today. It was the Sheriff's Posse of the early 1940s that decided something should be done to get a site for a big rodeo. It managed to put an item on a county wide ballot for funds to purchase a site for it and other activities. With the pos We'll Jn the "did you know" department, the first rodeo to be sponsored by a town Is thought to have occurred in 1883 at Pecos, Tex. Pecos Invited cowboys to hold their contests on the main street, and Reader Revolt Against High Txm Is Advocated To The. Editor: How much good doc It do to complain about high taxea and our fantastic national deM7 In fifteen yeari, ending In 1000, our government gave away $74 billion to revive its friends and foes since World War 11. Nations defeated in World War II are fi nancially stronger today than Is the United States, which poured out billions to set these nations up In business again, it mAn in nnr irnvernment do- eide to give away $200 million to Install sanitary plumbing in Pa tagonia, who is mere 10 iup them? Why should we spend 150 billion in space? Who caros about reaching tlio moon? Our citizens aro a lot of sheep. All they do is bleat? In my opin ion we must revolt against the con tinuing spiral of taxes and costs. Bankruptcy can destroy a nation as thoroughly as can an invading army. Communism will not need the force of arms to destroy lis. (Please give me one of those tranquilizer pills!) In order to pay higher taxes ev eryone must chargo more for goods, services or labor. People living on a fixed income are un able to increase their income. The family has no way to Increase Its income in proportion to the increase in the cost of living. The family with six children will buy 18 pairs of shoes in one year. Dental care will averago $12 per visit to the dentist. If three children need eye glasses the cost will be $150. By this time someone will say: "you are crazy for having so many children." However, the draft board never says that when it calls our sons to serve In the Army. Il'ass me another pill! ) Uid you ever wake up during the night in a cold sweat, wonder ing how you could ever pay for expensive and extensive hospital eare? Conservatives never do. They say everyone should take care of themselves with insurance and also save money for their re tirement. Hospital rare in Oregon aver ages from $34 to $16 per day, dc- njtnHinn nn tlin hiianitn) Tim rntt of rare for the non-paying patient is auueu. in inr cost 01 me paying patients. The higher the cost, the more non-paying palients. Conse quently the cost must continue to ' increase in a spiral. What hap pens when hospital rare reaches $50 and $K0 per day. The average family no longer can afford to participate In any satisfactory hos pital insurance plan. Hospital care in British Colum bia is only $1 per day for anyone and private hospitals get paid fur their, services. A sales tax that bo31cus-Rcuicu U I. t warn SI. Talvchuna ORrhard MM! ' Ffltfr6 11 ifctmd clllt matlar May 7, law, at lha poa artlca at Rotaburs, Ore ton, urxltf art f AMrcft I. WJ. - PgbllihM) Dally Evcaol Sunday by NCWSHPVIEW PUBLISHING CO J. V, Brannar Publlahar Tha Ntttt-Rtvto la a mambar a fna Unltao Praia International. NFA larvica. Audi! BJvraau of Circulation and Iba Oraajon Nawtoapar Pwbltthaia Aiuxiallon National Advartllino ttaorata.-ta.lva ! Nawioapar Adverting Sarv'ca Co , Rull I SulMinf, San Francises Calif. j SUBKIMPTION, RATES i tarrar an Rotabura a g. Bam fj month, 117a; a monlha, llfl SOi t ytar. t!l M y SW, In Oraoon! I month, it II, S tontha. ta.Mf 4 month, ft Ml yrar 1 Sll 00. OutlHja al Oraoon- 1 montft, l Mi i I monlha, UUi ( moMht, ll Hi 1 yaar 1 tfl.Oo. Ore. Bet You Didn't Opinions exempts food and children's cloth ing, provides hospital services for everyone. This is no more social istic than a gasoline tax that pro vides public Ugliwaya for every one. Canadians are social-minded peo ple. They are emerging from the Jungle life we live. They believe in the welfare of their own people first. Neither do they build free ways for the Hottentot's ox cart, nor do they dissipate their wealth in all til underdeveloped nations on earth. They have faitli In their country. They are not continually searching for communists behind every bush. I could wrile a few words about racial trouble, unemployment and why our mental hospitals are over crowded, but 1 feel a spell coming on. (Please givo me another of those pills!) Frank Llenlng Camas Valley Kt, Box 545 Winston, Ore. Majority Rulet Stand Opinion Of Writer To The Kdilor: So Amacher feels lot down bi lbo forest industry'.' Maybe some of them took a Innk at the facts of life, and who was responsible for paying the bills! It has alwavs been mv under standing (hat, right or wrung, the majority rules. If enough of us don't dike the policies of our ap pointees, we complain lu me one responsible for appointing them. It tliis docsn t work we can alwavs vote "No" at the next election. At least that is the wav it is sun- posed to work. Anytime we let a minority tell us what Is right or wrong, without questioning their decisions, we are in for trouble. The Forest Service. Bureau n( Land Management, etc, are re sponsible to their own departments and the President. Hut it all comes down to the fart that we, the pub lic, pay the bills. That gives us def inite rights. With the large timber operators, we aren't so directly Involved. Hut Just let them try and gel along without us! It's an economic fact that rais ing a product is only the lirst step You have to sell it, too. If we want to go back in history and check on the way some of their land was ob tained, maybe they have more re sponsibility to us than it seems! I was surprised to hear that ro dents do more damage than deer and elk. I was afraid they were going to (eel discriminated against. Now here's something we c a n really get going on. Someone, years ago, had the Idea of making crows a game bird. Ho claimed that was the quickest way to get rid o( them. Now we could allow a more generous limit on rodents, say ten a day, with special per mit in siime areas either sex, of course! Of course, there would always be a lew cripples that would get auay and a few that were to small or poor that would be led in the woods. You would be amazed at how last it would work! It seems to he the general idea that we should take the trained expert's wont for what is the right way to do things. This isn't right. They are only human, and as hu mans, they make mistakes. If we want In go back in history we can find mistake alter mistake A Inn in school, on being a-krd what caused the fall of the Human Kin pire, replied, "They got careless." U'l's not get that careless! 1 still maintain those experts can't count! Km mitt Churchill lit. I Box 77 Oakland, Oregon FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 1963 On Crowds se's promotion, the voters gave their approval, From the first rodeo in 19'l.r, the event grew to community-wide proportions in the next few years. It became the tradi tion to dress in cowboy duds, hold kanga roo courts and a lot of other special ac tivities for the week before the rodeo. It was a healthy celebration. Of course, one of the reasons for the letdown was the shortage of money. With (he continually growing demands on the leisure time of county residents, attend ance has slipped while costs have gone up. A lot of people appear willing to give their time and efforts to stapint? and pro moting the event, but it's all for naught, if the crowds don't turn out. . This year's roster of cowboys is going to be a top notch one. The parade in North Rosoburg will probably be the big gest in rodeo history. Dancing for any style of dancer is scheduled as a pre rodco event. So there'll be plenty to in terest a lot of people. Even the rodeo court is as pretty and talented as any we've had. The one uncertainty is the crowd. The rodeo and its festivities will probably live or die this year because of it. Let's hope the crowds both Saturday and Sunday are big ones. Know watch the dangerous fun. In 1888, Pres cott, Ariz., built a big corral and charged admission to a "Cowboy Celebration." Now, more than 3,000 professional cowboys compete annually in more than 500 rodeos. Ground Rules Set For Battle Over Timber Assessment SALEM (UPI) Ground ruin. for a batllo over timber land as sessments in five Western Oregon counties were laiu down Thursday at a meeting of state tax commis sioners and county and industry representatives. Timber land assessments for Benton, Columbia, Linn, Lane and Washington counties were in creased earlier this year, and caused a storm of protest from me iiimoer Industry. Protest hearings on the in creased assessments will be held over a four-week period beginning next week. Tax Commission Attorney Afloipn Petersen told the 50 coun ty officials and industry repre sentatives "the commission leels its valuation is correct, the bur den of proof rests with the indus try to show that the commission is wrong." Commissioners Charles Mack, rrcfl lioetke and Paul I, linger ap peared at today's informal ses sion. Mark said today's meeting was not to discuss the new values, but to explain the hearing procedure which will he followed during the next four weeks. Hoefke explained that the tim ber land assessments in the live counties were generally doubled. Mack said "the commission is not trying to shove the new values down the throats o( industries and the counties, all the new values arc subject to review." He admitted there were many conflicting factors that went into the determination of the new val ues, and commented "we have all the ingredients (or a top ranking mystery." Mack said the commission want ed facts brought out at the hear ings, not just blanket condemna tions of the new assessments. 1 Anti-Trust Suit Hits 5 Bakeries ; PORTLAND I CPU Mankx j Bakerv, Inc., Gresham, Wednes day filed suit in U.S. District I Court seeking $2,550,000 from live i other bakeries, the Teamsters I u j ion. seven individuals and the Bakery Employers' Council. I The bakery chinned the defend 1 ants conspired to put it out of business in violation of the Slier 1 man Anti-trust art. j The bakery also filed a suit against the Teamsters I men : alone claiming that placing of ' pickets near its plant Tuesday j was in violation of the 1947 Labor Management Relations Art. It charged the pickets were placed lo (orce employment of Teamsters , Local 4t)9 members in handling ' Marckx products. Baking companies named as de fendants were Continental Baking Co., I.angendorf United Bakeries Inc., Steins Bakery Inc., United States Bakery Inc., and Hudson ' House Inr , doing business as luxury Bread Bakery. Also named were International Brotherhood of Teamsters. Team : stcrs Joint Counrit No. 37 and ! Teamsters l ocal ' The bakery claimed the defend : ants ronapired lo put It out of business by prohibiting it from en ! gaging In wholesale trade and preventing competition with olher ' bakeries. fOCnirS I j n By PHIL NEWSOM The saffron robes of the Buddhist monks and the gleani ng Buddhist temples are as much 1 nart of Southeast Asia as the monsoons and the rice paddies. Buddhism is the state religion of Thailand. Laos is Buddhist and in South Vietnam it is estimated that 71) per cent of the popula tion is Buddhist. Which helps to explain mount ing United Stales concern over (he harsh repressive measures of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem's government against the Buddhist majority there. As a religious dispute between the Catholic president and the Buddhists, it is an internal mat- The Almanac Bv United Press International Todav is Friday. June 14, the 105th day of 1063 with 200 to fol low. This is Flag Day. The moon Is in its last quarter. The morning stars are Venus, Jupiter and Saturn. The evening star is Mars. Those horn today include liar riot Bcecher Stowc, who wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin," in 1811 On this day in history: In 1775, the United States Army was (minded when Congress au thorized 10 ride companies re cruited to serve the colonies. In 1887 Crcal Britain honored 1 Queen Victoria on the 50th anni-1 versary of her reign. I In 1940, the Germans entered I Paris during World War 11. In 1!)2, delegates from 10 Ell ropean countries sinned in Paris a convention creating a Kuropean space research organization. A thought for the day "1 lie Creek playwright, Aristophanes, said: "There is nothing so resist less as a woman in her ire. ' Portland Officer Dies Following Gun Wound PORTLAND (UPI) Policeman Ill-Ill. V 11. iiruwn, .10, till WHS Midi three limes al his home Tuesday night, died late Wednesday al Portland Sanitarium. He uns to have retired next year after 25 years service. The shooting climaxed a family quarrel, according to Multnomah 1 County deputies. He suffered two i gunshot wounds in the abdomen ' and one 111 the shoulder. His ttife, Irene. 55, was arrest ed after the shooting and charted iwith assault with intent In kill. Brown was appointed lo the po i lice bureau in 1939. lie had walk ed the louub skid road beat north of Burnside St. most of the time, 3n 2)ayJ Takan from the fllil 44 YEARS AGO Juno 14, 1923 The Wisconsin senate defeated the Sevcrson resolution providing for an investigation o( the reports of "boore parties" involving legis- lalors. The wets branded the reso- lotion a "counter" to their at-i temnts to repeal the drv law. The vote was Id to I The whole country is working vvilh unemployment at the lowest ichh fur 12 months, the United States labor department monthly survey revealed The analvsis showed th.it the farm labor short age is increasing, havinc become acute in some sections. Industrial labor is working full time ami in ;snme cases overtime, while un- skilled labor is targe Iv absorlwd hy road budding and similar ac liv ities. IS YEARS AGO i June 14. 1939 ' Trime minister Chamberlain Robes Prominent Southeast Asia ter and one thing. Its effect upon a war in which the United Stales is deeply committed and upon the feelings of millions ot southeast Asians toward the United Stales still another 1 For, like it or not, and many Americans in South Vietnam do not, the United Stales is commit ted to win the anti - Communist struggle in South Vietnam on a slogan "Win with Diem." The United States is doing its best lo disassociate itself from the present dispute. UPI Correspondent Neil Shee- nan reported on the basis of re- liable sources in Saigon that, pri- Diem himself assumes direction vutely, U.S. Deputy Chief of Mis-!0f all military operations, sion William Trueheart has urged 1 As a result, a large portion of Diem lo settle the quarrel and the South Vietnamese Army is get on with the war. i held immobile against a supposed U.S. military commander Gen. 'threat of mass Communist attack Paul D. Uarkins has ordered all; across the 17th parallel from American military advisers not to j North Vietnam: accompany Vietnamese units sup-!, "Clear and hold" operations pressing Buddhist demonstrations. ! against Communist - held villages But this counts for little when i usually result in the immediate re the Vietnamese use easily identi- turn of the Reds once govern fiable airplanes and equipment ! ment forces depart. Enemy cas obtained through American aid inUialties are exaggerated and some their repressive actions and in-j operations fail simply because of delibly link the United Stales ! faulty intelligence, with them. I U.S. aid has helped to stem the Once more from Saigon sources I Communist advance in South Viet Sheehan eports that the United nam. States so far has refrained from ' But, if events continue to follow publicly rebuking Diem out of: their present course the fat well fear of losing what little in-! could be in the fire. THE LIGHTER SIDE: By DICK WEST WASHINGTON (UPI) - Last year the alleged muzzling ot mil itary officers was making head- lines. And now there is a big : controversy over the muzzling of; ', congressmen. Of the two. I would say the lat- since (hen, forensic activity in lor is potentially more explosive, the chambrr has been pretty If you muzzle a military offKmuch confined to the actual husi ccr. he can always relieve his ness at hand. There hasn't bern frustrations hy harking at an en- an eerie silence exactly, but the listed man. decibel count is retain ely anc- But if von bottle up words In mic. a congressman, von get a da- When you confine a congress serous fermenting" effect, like put- man to the business at hand, you ling too much veast in the home 1 are playing a piano with only one brew 1 string. He is likelv either to blow his The verbal blockade was fur; cork or fly tiiree feet into the air ther lightened tins week by . ons and bust. one-man crusade to curtail the Oddlv enotlRlt, the muzzling ot congressmen is being carried nut bv two of their own kind Reps, Cjone J3i of The Nawi-Rtvttw ! told the house of commons today ; that Britain planned no retaliatory actions because ot the bombings of ; British shipping in the Moditer- ' ranean but was Irving to work out a system of safety zones to end the attacks. In his eagerly awaited state- ment. Chamberlain said ln nm- nosa s had been made which miuht eo some nav toward cessation of these attacks ' 10 YEARS AGO j Jun 14, mi With nine per cent already lop ped off President Eisenhower's pareddown foreiitn aid budget, a House Appropriations Committee member predicted ttxtay much ! sharper slashes will be made. Senator Wavne Morse, back home Friday to speak at a Demo 'crane Party dinner, told an inter- viewer that "the best hope of lib .eralism in Oregon today is in the Democratic party." fluenee it now has with his gov ernmcnt. N., Fir,t Snub . -, ... .. D" repicaeniaiivra ie nnuing 11 more ami more umicuu to maintain a position that Diem is leading a broad, popular move ment, when at the same time it is obvious he is in deep political trouble with a majority of his own population. This is far from the first lime that Diem has ignored U.S. ad vice. U.S. military forces in South j Vietnam are there to advise and not in mmm.-inil. Muzzling Solons Explosive Point Wayne Hays. D-Obio, and Paul C. Jones. D-.Mo. Hays got sore the other day be cause someone objected lo his re quest (or unanimous consent to address the House lor five hours. He (hereupon began to block sim- . tliit i-eonesls bv other members. I'laeuee m i-au-ihiuik irinnMo inn miu-rw ise iihvuix titiiieiini prmieo the Congressional Rcc- , ord. ' Jones pointed out thai the cost 'of printing the record had risen i to $90 a page, including a lot of 1 what he called "trash, tripe and i trivia." I He urged his colleagues to 1 show more restraint and dtscre- tion in contributing lo the record, , which other literary critics have described as the nearest thing we have to a national wastcbasket. And. in case some members lacked the wiil power to refrain - from such embellishments. Jones posted himself as a sentinel to make certain they tapered off 1 Needless to say, he and Hays will not be nominated as the two most popular kids on the block on couioi near lne munien fries of congressmen with words to disgorae and no place to ut ter them, it would turn your heart to butter, or at least to marga rine Unless llavs and Jones relent soon, 1 fear the buildup of gas eous compression will cause our lawgivers to disintegrate As an act of mercy, some of us ate planning to form an organi zation called "Verbosities Anony mous'' to help them endure the oniea! Should a congressman wake up at mzht with a compul sion to talk, we will lend him a tap reorder. 6y Charles V. Stanton Sports, Commercial Fishing Interests In Sharp Conflict It is extremely interesting to me to follow the various viewpoints and opinions connected with our Oregon fishery. Much of the opinion appears to go to the extreme. There seemingly is no middle ground. There is a great distrust, of sports fishermen by commer cial interests and the feeling is reciprocated. There is little tolerance on either side. Neither has any measure of confidence in the other. Each side feels that the other it out to "get" it and its interests and welfare. The Oregon Legislature, I be- I - , . ,., : lieve. has seriously impaired the Population of California, in par cause of conservation in Oregon. ! Il?,ul?r-, ', . booming. Californians It has been most regressive, I feel. '" looking to Oregon as a play in an area where Oregon should ' ground. .... be progressive ! our Oregon Legislature, in my Recreation and tourism are be-i opinion, should be deeply concern coming most important to Oregon. wlth developing our resource nnii.nital for the entertainment of 1 our local and out-of-state recrea tion seekers. Instead it has been l"N I k I i greatly influenced by those who I JfW C laOAC are manv vears behind time in ISU.y O I 1CrJ their thinking. The Legislature has ' l..:.u.j . - ,1 i:tl ......, By Frank Jenkins From Washington: Oregon Democrats went before the appropriations sub committees of both houses of the congress Tues day to press for approval of budget requests for public works projects in Oregon. Senator Morse and Senator Neu berger recommended to the Senate public works sub-committee that (Oregon) spending proposed in President Kennedy's budget be IN CREASED by about S8 million. Similar requests that the budget be adjusted upward were made by representatives fcmtn Green, Rob ert Duncan and Al Ullman. Senator Morse, in a nreoared statement, urged that a budget re- by the Fish Commission. It or quest for $57 million for the John dered the Game Commission to Day dam be upped to $71 million collect salmon and steelhead li because of "long delays that have cense money, then lo pungle up ensued in past years." He alio' 'la'f t0 e Fish Commission which urged that $545,000 be added to i Previously has had general fund the budget for the Coos and Milli-1 s5115'.nce , . . j coma Rivers project to help pro- Although Oregon . tourist and vide cheap transportation for logs ! ? lon lnau,"y ls ,,n? sUte 1 in 1 1,0 n., third aigest source of income winr L?, a ! actually second in some areas Senator Neuberger endorsed a 1 witn commercial fishing far down budget request for a project to lne list, (he Oregon Legislature deepen the Columbia river clian-i cn,;ni,- f,.ii,tn.r h ti, :nel to 40 feet. She noted that the solemn pronouncements of spokes .project had the endorsement of 1 men of the commercial industry j Rep. Norblad (Republican) of Ore- (hat any resd-ictions would send 1 gon, and Rep. Julia Hansen, of the 1 the industry into bankruptcy and stale of Washington Question: Is there anything WRONG with these requests that our kind old Uncle in Washington come across with more money for his nephews and nieces out here in Oregon? Probably not. If the John Day Dam is going to be built, it ought to be finished as soon as possible. And if long delays in its construction have add ed $14 million to its cost, Uncle snouid put up the difference. The same is true in the case of the frightened because they anticipate Coos Bay projects. spoils groups, angered by the Leg- And no one in Oregon. I think lislaturc's actions, will, through will quarrel with the contention I use of ,he initiative, secure greal that the channel of the Columbia ier restrictions than those tht river should be deepened to 40 ! commercial industry has been feet as far up as Portland. The i l,'1,!n?: . u state of Oregon needs a deep wa- But the extreme approach isn t tor nn,-t ,h th- f. DB, all one sided, in my opinion. lJ L rin.n,. , ,? i 1 " 'I"1 "'nt issue of the Pow n m. r L n .u k ' A" Rir Sportsmen, publica the interior makes it all the more ,ion of lhe sports council at Baker, important. 1 n ii i. M,nn,i ihi th nm ! That brings ships CLOSER TO 1 Commission be made an elecUve I THEIR CARGOES and that can 1 bodv. It would become a little gov , mean better markets for Oregon - ernment dthin a government. It j products. j would be completely divorced from I But control of the Governor or the Over the years 1 Legislature. Commissioners would 1 We have fallen into the delusion be chose by popular vote, that these things are FREE GIFTS T'"5 Proposal is made by sports fmm nnr mni niH l neio in ti'.ch. men disgusted with the way in jntion which the Game Commission was 1 ihev aren't 1 DUSd and made a political foot- i According lo figures just com.;''?" Jftl?"" " "S i piM by Tax Foundation lne Ore-; T "f; that the pro i gon received in federal fiscal 1952 d lan wnuW be , vcry total federal grants-in-aid amount- - ectiv(, wav of turning the Game ing lo S37.4 million. The csti-1 Commission into a purclv political mated OREGON BURDEN of Ihese ' bodv rather than separating it "gifts" came to a total of $78.4 from politics, reportedly the pri millitn. mary purpose of the proposal. Kennedy Predicts Solons Will Pass Aged Care Bill WASHINGTON (CPU Presi dent Kennedy said that medi cal care for the aged under Social Security is "very vital" and pre dicted that Congress will pass such legislation this year. The President made a strongly. I worded speech on behalf of the i so - called Medicare hill before - about 1.000 cheering members of ; the National Council for Senior ' Citizens. They met here lo press for the legislation "I think this bill will pass,", the Chief Executive told them. Asserting that no Western Euro pean country has failed lo pro-. vide some form of medical care (or older citizens. Kennedy said: "It's time the United States -caught up. I don't think we ought to be second in anv thins " Then, thumping the lecturn for emphasis, he declared: "My prediction certainly is thai if members of the House and Sen ate have a chance to vote on the hill it will pass in this 89th Con gress" The Hoi.se Ways tc Means Com mittee has been the mator bottle neck in the administration's ram paisn to have the prnsram en acted. Ch.-.irman Wilbur D. Mills. D Ark . recently made clear : that he still adamantly op pose the hill Kennedy said in a spirited five- - minute address that be could not see why it was necessary to finnt for hospital insurance through So The' Editor's Corner knowledge of resource and wild life management. The urgent need of the Oregon Game Commission for additional money with which to manage our fish and wildlife resources more efficiently, and to add needed fa cilities for the recreational enjoy ment of local and visiting anglers, hunters and vacationists, got ex actly nowhere. In fact, the Legis lature listened to the abuse heap ed upon the Game Commission and ordered an interim investiga tion with costs (0 be paid out of the commission's funds. It is, in my opinion, a very bad piece of legislation that would per-, mil legislators to make use of dedicated funds to pay for their interim junkets instead of charg ing such expenses to the general fund. Then, on top of all that, the Legislature evaded a large appro priation from the general fund to ! nav. usual, for fish oroductinn eliminate it from (he State of Ore gon. This, to me, is indefensible. We've been listening to that same cry for the past 30 years. Even the most severe restrictions so far proposed would result in only a small fraction of volume loss to the commercial industry. The fact that the Oregon Legislature listen ed (0 the industry's "scare talk" is an indication of a groat lack of legislative study, understanding and responsibility, in my opinion. Even some of the. spokesmen tor the commercial fishery now are cial Security since the principle was adopted by this country more than 30 years ago. "We are not suggesting some thing radical or new or violent," he said. "We're suggesting something that has been done by every in telligent, developed country in the world " Rattling off figures, the Presi dent said (be average older couple has $50 a week to live on and a single person over t5 averages only $20 a week for meeting all expenses. "There is no room in those budg ets for a serious illness, yet one in six will have such an illness and spend two weeks in the hos pital with an average bill of 5900." he said. The Chief Executive said his ma jor concern was for the person wilh $3,000 or $4,000 in savings or with a mortgage on a home that would evaporate in the event of serious illness. If the legislation is passed, he added, "every man and woman will know they never will be a burden on their children or a charity case because they have earned their way and that is what we want " The audience, composed mainly of men and women over 65 who came Irom many states to lobby for medicare, cheered his remark. Observers said il was Kennedy ! strongest speech on medicare
